Movies have changed drastically over time and the main cause of this change is our cultural values. Movies today are much different that those of yesterday, and they don’t even resemble those made generations ago. America thirty-plus-years ago was a lot more strict about issues that were taboo then, whereas today, those issues come up all the time. As we have progressed through the years, what is put on the big screen has become more r

Movies can make nightmares occur to children just the same. The difference is that the war story was true and most of what’s in the theatres is fiction. One of the biggest controversies is about children and how violence affects them. Most of society believes that violence in movies contributes to violence in children. They believe that movie violence makes children fearful, desensitizes them, and makes them aggressive. I don’t believe this is true. The answer may lie in the human psyche and not in mainstream media. Children and teenagers that commit aggressive acts may already be aggressive by nature. Something else may have caused them to be the way they are. Those children may also have had the idea to commit a violent act already implanted in their heads and a movie just showed them a way to do it. Who or what they were going to damage would have been damaged anyway. The children may have also already been fearful. They are fearful of their parents, siblings, or the outside world. No one can make the statement that movies and mass media in general makes children violent. It is already a part of who they are.

acy, more sexually explicit, more violent, and much more gory. Moviemakers have pushed the envelope to what extent the audience can handle; and it seems as if the audience can handle quite a lot.

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